Chren Byng

Chren Byng was born in Richmond, Virginia, but soon moved to her mother’s homeland, Australia, where she grew up by the beach. In her day job as a children’s book publisher, Chren has published award-winning and bestselling books from many of Australia’s most-loved authors and illustrators, including Judith Rossell, Freya Blackwood, Matt Stanton, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Bronwyn Bancroft, Katrina Nannestad, Philip Bunting and Emma Quay. Her own debut picture book, Flocked, illustrated by New York Times bestseller Andrew Joyner, was published in 2022. Chren lives in Sydney with her family.